I don't have much to add. Bob's dad and mine were both on the faculty at KU Med School. And in a odd coincidence, my future wife and Bob's sister Donna were in graduate school together and lived in the same house at the University of Northern Colorado in the early 1980s.
Does anyone know where he went to college? Maybe University of Michigan?
I had a medical school classmate (class of 1977 at KUMC)--Robert A. Chin--who was from Overland Park and went to U. Mich. as an undergrad, according to a KUMC yearbook. I don't remember anything else about him--a lot of years have gone by. I don't know if the SMS and KUMC Robert Chin's are the same, but the age and locale are similar.
I was a registered nurse at KUMC and Bob was a resident at KUMC in I believe anesthesiology when he died. I don't remember where he got his undergraduate or medical school degrees.
Yes, Bob was a Med School Classmate of mine and was selected for the competitive anesthesia residency at KU Med Center. I didn't know him at SMS but with 880 in our class, I don't think anyone but Jerry Petruzelli know who everyone was. In Med School, Bob was pleasant when you spoke to him but very intense and quiet in medical school. His father, Tom DY Chin, was an esteemed professor, author of many papers, excellent teacher and director of Division of Infectious Disease at KU Medical Center while Bob was a med student there and as he entered residency. Dr. TDY Chin was a very gracious and cordial person but even passively I'm sure set a high bar for his children and had probably been just as intense when he was a medical student as Bob was a generation later. Bob died pretty abruptly during his residency, I think when he was away from KC. I don't think any of his fellow residents heard anything directly about circumstances of his death. No social media then. Like the Bruce Springsteen song on his Letter from Home album: One Minute You're here, Next Minute You're Gone.
John Varner
I could find very little about Bob's life.
Robert Allen Chin was born on 12 September 1952 to Tom and Rita Chin in New Orleans. His sister, Donna, was born in 1953.
Bob passed away in January of 1979 at the age of 27 in Kansas City, Mo.
PLEASE! If you have more information about his life, post it here. If this is not accurate, please post a correction.
Andrew Melnykovych
I don't have much to add. Bob's dad and mine were both on the faculty at KU Med School. And in a odd coincidence, my future wife and Bob's sister Donna were in graduate school together and lived in the same house at the University of Northern Colorado in the early 1980s.
Rob Strickland
Does anyone know where he went to college? Maybe University of Michigan?
I had a medical school classmate (class of 1977 at KUMC)--Robert A. Chin--who was from Overland Park and went to U. Mich. as an undergrad, according to a KUMC yearbook. I don't remember anything else about him--a lot of years have gone by. I don't know if the SMS and KUMC Robert Chin's are the same, but the age and locale are similar.
Andrew Melnykovych
I am reasonably sure that's the same Bob Chin. I remember my dad telling me Bob was in a class he taught at KUMC.
Michele Bucher (Gunnoe)
I was a registered nurse at KUMC and Bob was a resident at KUMC in I believe anesthesiology when he died. I don't remember where he got his undergraduate or medical school degrees.
Charlie Porter
Yes, Bob was a Med School Classmate of mine and was selected for the competitive anesthesia residency at KU Med Center. I didn't know him at SMS but with 880 in our class, I don't think anyone but Jerry Petruzelli know who everyone was. In Med School, Bob was pleasant when you spoke to him but very intense and quiet in medical school. His father, Tom DY Chin, was an esteemed professor, author of many papers, excellent teacher and director of Division of Infectious Disease at KU Medical Center while Bob was a med student there and as he entered residency. Dr. TDY Chin was a very gracious and cordial person but even passively I'm sure set a high bar for his children and had probably been just as intense when he was a medical student as Bob was a generation later. Bob died pretty abruptly during his residency, I think when he was away from KC. I don't think any of his fellow residents heard anything directly about circumstances of his death. No social media then. Like the Bruce Springsteen song on his Letter from Home album: One Minute You're here, Next Minute You're Gone.
Charlie Porter